From: Gennady Bystritksy Date: 2005-09-01T01:37:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby documentation typo It may serve as a guideline for new people -- try finish the book before filing bug/typo reports ;-). Or, at least, try it in irb. Welcome to Ruby :-) Gennady. Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote: > Hi David, > Thanks for the information. Actually I'm new to Ruby, and I've not passed > that page yet so... > Best Regards, > Behrang S. > > On 8/31/05, David A. Black wrote: > >>Hi -- >> >>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote: >> >> >>>Hi all >>> >>>I just stumbled upon a typo in the Ruby documentation and thought it >>>would be OK to mention it here. >>> >>>The typo is at the http://www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html page: >>> >>>--- >>>Sometimes creating arrays of words can be a pain, what with all the >>>quotes and commas. Fortunately, there's a shortcut: %w does just what >>>we want. >>> >>>a = %w{ ant bee cat dog elk } >>>--- >>> >>>I guess, the %w{ ant bee cat dog talk } must be %w[ ant bee cat dog >>>talk] as we're talking about arrays and not hashes. >> >>Actually %w can take just about any delimiter: >> >>%w-a b c- >>%w!a b c! >> >>etc. So you can definitely use {}. >> >> >>David >> >>-- >>David A. Black >>dblack@wobblini.net >> >> > > >